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GPS-Based Machine Vision Systems for Roadway Marking Wins ATSSA Award

Three companies committed to advancing roadway safety were recently awarded prestigious American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) "2013 Innovation Awards" for their creative new products used on America's roadways. The three winners were chosen from a field of 22 companies competing for the awards.

27 Feb 2013

Battles between Humanoid Robots Hosted on Syfy

A new television series featuring 12 giant robots who ‘fight to the death’ casts University of California, San Diego engineering physics alumna Saura Naderi (B.S., '07) as one of a dozen ‘robo-techs’ who partner with a human fighter (‘robo-jockey’) and a super-sized robot to compete for a $100,000 prize.

27 Feb 2013

Electronic Security Expo to Present Webinar on Security Robotics at ESX 2013

The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) announced today that it will produce new media and event opportunities to help connect makers and distributors of security robots and robotics platforms with security systems integrators, monitoring companies and security industry OEMs.

26 Feb 2013

Thalmic Labs Launches New Wearable Gesture Control Device

Waterloo-based startup Thalmic Labs announces the launch of their revolutionary gesture control device, MYO, an armband worn on the forearm that senses electrical activity in the muscles, allowing users to interact with digital technologies using just their fingers and hands.

26 Feb 2013

TeleCommunication Systems Introduces SATA and PATA BGADrive SSDs for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, today announced the availability of its ultra-compact BGADrive® solid-state drive (SSD) in both serial ATA (SATA) and parallel ATA (PATA) interface versions.

26 Feb 2013

Elliott Museum's Wheels of Change Exhibition Uses Boomerang’s Robotic Automated Parking System

Boomerang Systems, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of automated robotic parking and self storage solutions, and the Elliott Museum, today announced the opening of the museum’s “Wheels of Change” exhibition.

26 Feb 2013

U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk Program Awarded 2012 Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award

The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft program was recently awarded the 2012 Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for demonstrating the most improved performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness. Northrop Grumman Corporation is the prime contractor for the high-flying fleet of Global Hawks.

26 Feb 2013

Preventice Gears Up to Market BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System

By all industry accounts, interest in remote patient monitoring is expected to remain strong in the coming years, as hospital readmission penalties in the United States take effect in 2013, and as mHealth technologies become more pervasive in the care delivery system, according to a report from Berg Insights.

26 Feb 2013

MIT Students Find New Way to Teach Robots to Adapt

Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call “pick and place” tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another. Usually, the objects — say, automobile components along an assembly line — are positioned so that the arm can easily grasp them; the appendage that does the grasping may even be tailored to the objects’ shape.

26 Feb 2013

Boeing Acquires Acalis Technology to Improve Defense of Unmanned Aircraft

Boeing today continued to address its global customers' enduring need to protect warfighters from information-assurance attacks by acquiring CPU Technology Inc.'s Acalis business. Acalis microprocessors contain unique hardware and software that can guard mission-critical onboard systems in Boeing platforms.

From Boeing 25 Feb 2013

Study on Cockroaches Could Aid Engineers Design Steadier Robots

Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.

25 Feb 2013

NASA Spacecraft Equipped with Faraday Cup to Collect Sun’s Atmospheric Particles

A critical instrument on a historic space mission that will fly into the sun’s atmosphere is being tested after development by a partnership between The University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

25 Feb 2013

CEOE Scientists to Use New Remotely Operated Vehicle for Marine Research

An underwater robot made a splash at a University of Delaware swimming pool recently in a test of the new equipment, which will soon be used in field research by College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) scientists.

25 Feb 2013

SOCOM Awards Unmanned Aircraft Systems Contract to Insitu

Insitu Inc. announced today that the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded the company a Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS) Intelligence Gathering, Target Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Services contract for 26 months through Feb. 28, 2015.

25 Feb 2013

Two Rochester Artists to Exhibit Rhinestone Covered Replica of US Predator Drone at Hampden Gallery

An 18-foot-long rhinestone covered replica of a U.S. Predator drone will be the center of new multimedia art exhibit opening on Friday, March 1, at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

22 Feb 2013